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i - ~. -. . . . . l' . .i,':is STRIPri lON IN' AID OF TI - i SPANISIi PATRIOTS. r., • • .. • CITY OF LONDON TAVERN, • • ' . , DEC 11:4111.1t 13. 1 1 IT - I-TE COMMITTEE appointed on the 9th of I December, by the 111:.k.CHANTS and INHABI ", Nls of L()N L) a) N, to attend to the A pp.!icatton It a. ii t.,m , V.,1 ;,111)sc:ipti.);i - in aid of the brave SPANISH I' A - '1 :',I ti FS, now struggling in the Field to defend their Coun t, v• i font a toreign and cruel I wader, cannot - discharge. that c iiy without mddiig an earnest - Appeal to the Attention of -- tr.L;r kencrous Con-tut - nen, of all ranks, in behalf of a Na • ~; 4 1 Aid a Cause s:r"..acresting to all the sympathies of Ilti . tons, - A people contending for their independence, libertio,arld ll security, from foreign tyranny and oppression-a, nation, irielidly in its dispositions—honourable in, all-its national . Landuct• and diameter —fitted by political...anti commercial in„ere,,ts and relations, to be closely connec,ted to alltauce and 'friendship with- Great Britain, and now stri.iggling with he roic, fortitude, in a common cause, against a common and finest tormidaOle• foe ; suffering in the arduous confiid the greatest hardships, and cutturitiA the severest-privatious, has, surely, strong claims of every - kind. on every inhabitant of tht,..e islands ; and though the greatest exertions have, with . the general -pprobaiion of this nation, been made by G0,,,r,,,1ient , ,,r,,,lient t,: LtlOrd the must extensive, speedy, and cdettual i i-i. an treasuie, arms, aimuunition, niilitary stores, equip- I mews, and clothing. for the maiutenance and support tat the . . :vanish troops, together with the succour of large bodies of I;r,tisit soldiers, it is still felt, that the generous manna:sta. - lion of the popular sentim,=t, and such further aids, an VA= I 10 , 4 4., :•1ii.1,, ~ a B eii, at and liberal Subscription may sup i•:; . cannot 'out have all eat:daunt:riling arid c , itt,oling to the . ;Npani,r, i,tldier, itsil 4;0ov-his:nig to the Spantsli Government • toaat people, of tne perfect union ill opinion and sentiment w larch on this subject subsists throaghout tilts,: islands. The Loinmittct: rely, with confidence, that the good ex -o.llp lc of the puolic Corporatious,and Companies, and of ' tot I nhabtiants of the Metropolis, will be followed by the . pinicipat Cities, Towns, and Distriets ut the, U nited King ! trout, in order to form together an ofieriug worthy of the great cause for which it is rnidie—of the high charatter and afflu ence of the Empire which presents it, and fit to be accepted i by the gallant, disinterested, and Ingli.spittted nation, to v nose brave defenders it is offered. . , Amount of Subscriptions advertised-k3z,z92 IS 6 ADDITIOVAL SUBSCRIPTIONS, . - At blesses. Sansoin and Co. I ,olin Miles - to to 1 ThomaS`Wishart - to no At Messrs. Goslings and CO. " - ' tl.ijor fames Rennell . - - - 5 - 5 - - At Messrs. Hoare Barnet and Co. Thomas Neatby to to I Cohn Wells - 52 to 1 ttuutas Picktord, jun. 52 to At Messrs. Down and Co. Imes Tindall - 5o oIJ.U. D. - i I At Messrs. Forster and Co , 1, add Li. 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A very trifling disturbance which occurred Rome time ago at Oporto, has furnished the Opposition Papers with an opportunity of describing the whole of the North of Portugal as being in a state border ing upon revolt. The apprehensions thry have ex pressed upon this snbjett, we are happy to inform them, are wholly without foundation, for, according to the last accounts recei,ied by Government, the most perfect tranquillity prevailed at Oporto, and in every 'other part of Portugal. The whole of this important. " revolt," as it is termed, arose from some regulations which the Governor of Oporto made respecting ogre of the markets, and the dis turbance was quelled hnivediately. The Proclama= tion which was issued upon the occasion iagiven in a subsequent Column. . We venture to present c?ur Readers with 'a few thoughts on the ohjett of the War whi c h R PARTE t 3 now waging against Spain, and 011 its pro- bable issue. In perusing the Bulletins of BIJONAPARTE since his arrival in Spain, it is not nnimportant to remark the tone of rancorous fury by which • they are dis tinguished, while his cautious continuance at the head-quarters testifies the reality of his terrors.— Born, if we may so express ourselves, in the Re volution, and being merely one of the ephe m2ral products of that. Revolution, be makes a difference between a nation armed to preserve its independence, and an army sent by - a Govern ment feeble, corrupt, and already subdued by its fears, to prevent the conqUest of a part of its ter ritories. BUONApARTE finds himself precisely in the situation of those Sovereigns whom the Revolu tion has destroyed, and he is well aware that, in the war with Spain, net only his power, but his very ex istence, is at stake. He knows that it he does not overcome Spain this winter, his doom is fixed, and that he will fall by the hand of the Spaniards or the French ! Our. Countrymen have, in general, a false idea of the power of Lunt; At'AaTe in t4'rance, because they are always accustoine.4 to view him as the ,Leader of the French Armies ; they do not seem to susped that the Senate of Paris, so submissive at this mo ment to the will of BJONAPARTE, SO servile in their addresses to the Tyrant, might, by a single decree, precipitate him front the throne, and send him to the scaffold; that, for this purpose, they have only to declare him tmi of 11w law, coneuke the Primary Assemblies, order the Army of Spain to return to France, and proclaim its determination to make peace with England. Pure despotism exists on no poinfof the habitable globe ; in the most arbitrary Governments it is modified by religious institutions, by civil prescrip tions, or by national manners. We are too ;ipt to confound tyranny with despotism. Men would never submit to despotism, if they were offered a Constitu tion by which it was established, but tyranny is to be found almost every - where, because the precau tions adopted to restrain it, ar, commonly insufficient. spotism establishes itself over a vanquished peo ple ; tyranny introduces itself in the rear of anarchy, into Countries which have been long and cruelly agitated by intestine cornmotions. In ihe litter case, political institutions, instead of wearing a despotic form, assume on the contrary, an appearance of liberty ; they oppose, however, but feeble barriers against a poN.yer which it is necessary to invest with a force sufficiently great to restrain the restlessness of faaion. This is w hat has taken place in France ; and such has necessarily been the result of the flevolution, since the dynasty which occupied the throne had no armed party in the Country to in fluence the order of things substituted in the place of anarchy. Despotism, every where modified by religion, civil laws, manners, customs, and national habits, is a form of Government. It moves by permanent rules ; and it is this concordance of the nature of Government with secondary institutions, and na tional manners, which gives w despo!ism a kind of durability. Tyranny, on thc contrary, always in opposition to•the nature of Government, secondary institutions, and national manners, is driven to the necessity of attacking them openly, or undermining them in secrecy and silence. This - explains why tyrants and usurpers aspire to become despots; and why, in many cases, the _Go vernment of a despot is not tyrannic. This also e;...p!ains why BUONAPARTE Oakeswar on Europe. The men who dire him know that the revolutionary principle is not yet destroyed in France—that it is only kept under,_and that it io r esource to "which vplicatiou must be trade, in or- tier to substitute a regular despotism in the place of tyranny they know; too, that the mode t F.e most simple, the most analogous to. the charaaer of the French nation, and to the present state of France, of•a%;erting the action o 4 this principle, which eter rally threatens the Government instituted to keep • 'it under, is to direa it against other nations, and to make an European revolution ! The partisans and the *.'niters Of BUONAPARTE, here,and abroad, have repeated even to satiety, that he had terminated the revolution, and the multitude believe it. They presented at first to Europe the systemic offlisiou as the means which had produced this grand result. It was, however, not -difficult to perceive that this famous system of fusion, this boasted conception of the genius of BUONAPARTE was simply the area of an irresistible necessity, the unavoidable result of the state of the fadlions which exist in France, the influence of which may be col luded from the form given to the Government, and the composition of the authorities instituted at that early epoch. The only just and natural inference to be derived from this system of fusion is, Us;t the majority of the French people, and even of the different faetiOns, are equally dissatisfied with the Government. then esta blished, and that of BtJONAPARTE. WE briefly commented on the Message front thee President of the United States to the Senate ~t House of 'Representatives, inserted in our Par r Friday last, and intended to say so liething farther of: a subje, - t so interesting, not only to Etas Couktry 31.1° ' America, but to all Etirope. The Letter, howe ver) from Mr. CANNING, in answer to Mr. F0°1: KEY, .enters so tulty in.o the skeet, a 9 render little necessary on our part. The Fit" SIDENT says, that the Berlin Decree and ° Il m Orders in Council " had been assued by each as a retaliation tor an asserted acquiescence 1 11 thet j aggiessions of the other." This is mania-esti,' et' eirontous statement. "1. he Berlin Decree rou lte4 from French arrogance, and a design ii possible' to ruin this Country ; and the acquiescence of M l24i ,rica in that Decree, rendered the Orders of C eline :. , necessary tor the support of our Commercial R i g ht ' s n a• . as well as our National Dignity. The radii*" a then was, the measure of Great Britain, in r et`ir • for the unjust assumption of France, and Anse riLa ought to have confined her resentment, o r be demand for justice, to the Power which gave Pr e ' f vocation. But the President says, that '`' l.-- France no answer has been received, nor any ind ica. : lion that . the reqUisite change in her Decrees is c° ttl templated." Why then dues America hesitate 0 renounce all amicable intercourse with Franceia° not draw closer to Great Britain, who, Pis Mr. C i ' t*P. NING declares in his letter,would most willinglY °v adopted any means . , for the repeal of the Er° -ar A' e oe if it could be done without appearing to —' ve elite. it as a measure of hostility, and W in ' „ gladly facilitated its removal, as a measure °I ~ `convenient restrietion upon the American Pe o p le. Does France care for the inconveni enc e of ° t ~.[ c people ? Does she not do all she can to promot e own views, even if she brings the utmost rnl' eti i; upon other States ? Has she not heaped 4° , i 10 upon insult on America, and yet,America st ll2ll/1 1, to them quietly, or rather adopts a measure etc culated to injure Great Britain, who would luVi issued no orders injurious to her, if the injus tice of France had not compelled her in self-defc - ' lles ,i But Mr. CANNING takes so comprehensive an: -so particular 'a view of the whole question (li We refer our Readers to his admirable l eltcr ; if possible, will raise his character yet hg l) . in th,e estimation of his Countrymen. Tile 11 ` :s ' dent of the United States was ju-a t he ly censured in a American Journals, a short time ago, for the frig' manner in w hitch he spoke of the situation of Sila ie : and all the world must have read with coin( toP t ' a well as surprize, the indifference w i t h which tc viewed the J r ug 1 s of a ~ ait-nt to lbe „„ ptop attempt of a T) rant to enslave them. Yet iii' lie Message to which we now retcr, it appeals th at ti d e is still as callous as ever to the wrongs of Spain , careless of her fate, for, in alluding to her, he that important negotiations have necessarily eS , P -11 enced a pause " under the extraordinary and intere st :, iug crisis which distinguishes her internal situatiu ri " . I .kt.;an any thing be he more unfeelingly caution , . N et 5 word is Said in her favour, and f. r aught he Or es ' an independent People may be reduced by an a lr°- cious Despot to the most cruel and ignorninions bondage. It would have been more wise if the President bad avoided .all allusion to Spain, if he wras afraid of offending . BIJONAPARTE by any 6,iiressi°4 of pity for the . situation of that Country, o ther than to skew such a torpid indifference as to the issue of ilie glorious contest is which she is engaged' In discussions of this nature, objetaions should be fairly met. We shall, perhaps, be told, that the Constituted Authorities, composed of hostile parties, and the People themselves, leave recognised BUONA PARTE as -Emperor. This is true, but does this prove that the Reva k tion is terminated ? " The errors," says BACON, " which proceed froth reasoning, reasoning can ne ver rectify." Let us then have recourse to fads : BUONAPARTE has just created a Nobility, and at tached revenues to their tides. This institution is conformable to monarchy, and appears, at the first glance, to be nothing but the consequence of theilaw which established a new dynasty. But if the revOlution were terminated, if the new dynasty were confirm ed on the throne, if, as our Writers assert, the French were anxious to preserve it, and if all the factions were merged and lost in the party of the Tyrant, why should all these titles be foreign and the reve nues attached to theM be out of France ? If Buo- NA PA RTE had nothing to fear from the French peo ple, and the Civil Authorities, whence this distinc- , tion between the Civil Nobility, which is French, and the Military Nobility, which depends not on France, but on the Emperor alone, and on the Em peror, as he is King of Italy and Proteaor of the Germanick Confederation ? This can only be ex plained by the necessity which BUONAPARTE feels of seeking in the army a defence against the people and the Civil Authorities, and of interesting the Generals in a system of exterior policy, which con sists in revolutionizing Europe,. in order to remove beyond the boundaries of France the a&ivity of ie• revolutionary principle.' If the French Revolution were terminated,.,Buo• NAPARTE would be established . on the flip:Vie; he' would regard the crown of France as the inheritance of hs family ; he would wish for peace ; he would make it at any price ; and, certainly, the conquests of the Revolution enable him to purchase it by sacri fices to which his enemies attach considerable im portance, but which would not essentially affect the real strength of France. But far from being desir-. ous of peace, he is eternally plunging into new wars, wars withodt objea for France, and very frequently contrary to her dearest interests. It his power were established, if he had nothing more to fear from the Revolution, if he were - the Sovereign of the French instead of being only their Tyrant, he would have no interests distiutk from those of France. His wars are attributed by his admirers to pride and ambition : they do not, or will not see, that BUONA PA R 2 E makes war through system and through ter ror, as ROESSP [ERR E guillotined through system and through terror. He undertakes new wars inces santly, and talks for ever of peace, as ROB ESPiERE talked of liberty while he Covered France with state prisons ! ROBESPI ERRE also has his system of fusion, for the Revolutionists were stowed in the same prisons with their vidims; and we shall never forget that it . Was TALLIEN, BARRAS, FRERON, and other monsters,, covered with the blood which they had shed in esta— blishing the ridiculous tyranny of BOBESPIERRE, wlio dragged him to the scaffold. BuoNnAtlTE,plaCed at the head of the Committee of Public Safety ; would have-established the requisitions and the maximum; he would have forbidden the exercise of any reli gious worship ; would have assassinated the Catho lic Priests; would have guillotined his thousands that he might have national effe6ts to sell to replace the antient sources of the - public treasure, which_ the anti I o f the t d il Revolution had dried up, and to 'satiate 1,115 - Thursday afternoon, the first division tot .B.egitnent, .commanded by Ci:hinel DUFF, 1 71 dity of the numerous ruffians employed to irm- joithanto xani,oe . barracks the second StbreY. . Lige and massacre the FrenchN ~ation m g lett them the day Were for \lirgaies B ro ad he would have ma kt War on all - EuroPe:l4 tsj3sth stairs, and other places in the Isle of Thanet• appr : aeg y aoro t s lz ah r t e a t iv iF i s oi t ac h no l i c s a i id v : a tr l ie l eg p s i t uol re e til t .lo l: ins , a 7 r ol: !ce ii. : l PO . Wish republics in every country. Suppose . 1 . 1d50 rontsplEßß.B Emperor of the French ; would have assassinated the Duke of ENGLIUIif j carried off ' horses since their landing in Spain. Arnba3sattirs ; shot writers and roL sotmd, the '9yierali of whom he stood in fear ; cc,s9lsd his , secret dungeons with viaims, who wooid t here be racked to death in darkness and obscuritY ;-• he would have established the conscriptions, and de creed the blockade of England, that he might have a pretext for perpetuating war by renewing, from time to time, his inadmissible overtures of peace; he would have invaded Portugal and Spnin, • under the pretext of placing his family on the throne of these two monarchies, and, in a word, done every thing which we see BUONICtAKTE doing, These two men. have been dragged on by the Revolutionary movement, while they have beer'! supPOi6d to dire& it ; and because" the Revolution.- hai changed its form, BUONAPARTE iS believed to have terminated k !' France is still iu Revolution, and the governatient of BOOKIVV4HTE4S 'Revolutionary.' it is necessary tabe convinced -t.ftbis, to combat it with any advantage, and to pat an end, at.iength, to -calamities which desolate the globe. We stall take the earliest opportunity of resuming this sobjea, and applying what we have advanc e 4 to the war which BITONAPARTE is now wagiilg Spain. I